Posts Tagged ‘fake pharmacy’
PSM Advocates for SHOP SAFE legislation at Anti-Counterfeiting Day on the Hill
Our Executive Director, Shabbir Safdar, along with PSM members, shared examples of pharmaceutical counterfeits and helped attendees understand why current systems for stopping counterfeit product sales do not work well.
[...]Criminal Internet Pharmacy Networks Are Capitalizing on COVID-19.
In May 2020, the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) released Rogue Online Pharmacies in the Time of Pandemic: Capitalizing on Misinformation and Fear, which focuses on how established fake pharmacy networks have pivoted to cash in on the coronavirus. PSM’s illustrated version of the report offers a compact summary of NABP’s work. Watch…
[...]Myth: We are getting the same drugs Canadians take
In 2014, during a two-year period when Maine was experimenting with drug importation, the president of Maine’s Pharmacy Association purchased medications from an online pharmacy for testing. The drugs he received were not approved for the Canadian or U.S. markets. Worse, they were poor quality: two of them were the wrong strength, and the other was contaminated.
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